Word: colorful
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White South Africans sometimes say flippantly that their country's color problem began nine months after Jan van Riebeeck and his Dutch East India Company settlers arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. In many ways, this is how the "coloreds" (racially mixed South Africans) have long been regarded by whites-as a joke and an embarrassment, as "brown Afrikaners," the living evidence of indiscretions by their forefathers...
...marry slave women who had been converted to Christianity. There was also casual mating between visiting European sailors and local nomadic Hottentot women, and between slaves, half-breeds and the Hottentots. In 1682 the Cape colony rulers decreed that whites could not marry freed slaves of "full color" but could continue to marry half-breeds. Nonetheless, "irregular unions" continued...
...like the ectomorphic Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy resists shrinkage. Its events are febrile, its local color relentless and sometimes overlong. This often obscures suspense and the Le Carré trademark: a fine irony that smashes beautiful political theories with hard facts. That irony is apparent in the very word Circus (see box), center of British intelligence. Once a roiling three-ring operation, the place now resembles a shabby, peeling carnival depleted of funds and dignity...
...large, administrators have taken the students' plight philosophically. Not so, however, at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., which has been forced to house students in motel rooms near campus until new dorms are finished. As a result, 105 George Mason students are enjoying maid service and color TV. The school's tab? Over...
Setting their work to well-known pieces of classical music, in the manner of Fantasia, Bozzetto and his talented team have created half a dozen imaginative sequences in which their characters-and characterizations-take wing. Using a cheerfully baroque style, free flowing and strong in color and design, the Italians have matched the richness that Disney's animators developed in their great, early years, before their boss forced them into the slick, highly conventionalized mode that has dulled his studio's work ever since Fantasia's early commercial failure. (In rerelease, of course, the movie has been...